The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12

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Hartford; also the resolutions providing
the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
LIQUORS, by vote of 141 to 81.
The Connecticut House on the 9th passed
a bill fixing uniform license of S400 for
strong liquors and $50 for beer, wine, etc.
General j. Alexander, of Willow Brook,
| Cayuga County, N. Y, died on the 5th while
en- route on a train on the New York Cen
trail road to his home from Atlanta, Ga.
Business failures throughout the country
during the seven days ended the 9th number
for the United States, 153; for Canada, 20;
total 1S2, against 19l the previous week, and
192 for the CORE spending week of last year.
Among the passengers by the steamer
Adriatic, which arrived at New York on the
9Th, were thirteen men who recently re-
signed from the Irish consttbulary because
they were opposed to evicting tenants from
| their farms.
Natural gas was struck on the 9Th at
Morrisville, Madison County, N. Y, at a
depth of 400 feet. The gas jet rose to a
height of seventy-five feet, and with such
/ force as to destroy the building and drill
| apparatus.
A terrific storm prevailed in the vicinity
| OF jamestown, N. Y, on the 9Th. Four
buildings at Randolph were struck by light
| ming and burned, and several horses and
other live stock were killed by lightning.
Fruit and forest trees suffered much dam
| age.
For the week ended May 6 imports of dry
/ goods at the port Of New York amounted to
| 81, Az. .527 of which 81, ,205, ,022 were entered
for consumption. and S215,505 were ware
housed. Withdrawals from warehouse for
the week were 1854 ,352. making total
| amount thrown on the market Of s, Ass, 304
A movement is on foot in New York to
erect a statue in that city to the late Presi-
dent Arthur. At a meeting on the 9th a
| committee of one hundred prominent and
wealthy citizens was appointed to receive
plans and subscriptions. The statue is to
cost $50, OOO
The Hotel Kaaterskill, on the Catskills,
was totally destroyed by forest fires on the
9th. The Catskills is the favorite summer
resort in New York State, and the burned
hotel was one Of the finest in the country.
WEST AND SOUTH.
| At Springville, Ind, on the Sd William
Evans, aged twenty, accidentally shot and
killed Arthur Voss, his boon companion.
Evans became wild with grief over the ac-
| cident and attempted to kill himself.
The American Bridge Works at Chicago,
| comprising six large shops and covering
five acres of ground, were totally destroyed
by fire on the Sd, causing loss of S400, ,0O0
George Hazlett, a laborer, was killed by q
| falling derrick. Five hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
The report to the effect that a large num-
Der of cases of leprosy had developed in the
parish Of st. Martin, La, resulted in the
appointment of comm ission to investigate.
The commission has reported that they
| found three cases of undoubted leprosy,
| and three suspicious cases. The cases
| positively diagnosed as leprosy were all
hereditary, and there was no evidence that
the disease was contagious, or that it was
| spreading.
The Willard Hotel at Brainerd, Mimi, the
finest in Southern Minnesota, burned on the
4th. Loss, s65, 900; half insured.
General Simon B. Buckner was nominated
| by acclamation for Governor Of Kentucky
| by the Democratic State Convention, which
met at Louisville on the 4th.
Reports from sixty-five town and city
elections held in Indiana on the Sd show
| large Democratic gains in all sections, many
cities heretofore reliably Republican having
elected their entire Democratic ticket. La
! fayette and Shelbyville, for the first time in
their histories, elected Democratic Mayors.
The steamer g. P. Heath burned to the
waters edge and sunk near Centerville,
Wis, on the Sd. The wheelsman, George
Oleson, was drowned. The vessel carried
! a deck load of hay, which was insured. and
was valued at s., ,0OO.
While working on farm near Eau Claire,
Wis, on the 4th, eight persons were stimuli
taneously struck by lightning. Duncan
| McKinnon was instantly killed and John
McGregor fatally injured; the others were
stunned but will recover.
| Governor Gordon, of Georgia, on the
4th granted an unconditional pardon to
John r. and Charles A. Kelley, brothers,
for murder committed by them in Daw-
| son, that State, eighteen years ago, and for
which they were under sentence to twenty
years in the penitentiary. Both men are
| now model citizens of Florida, and occupy
prominent positions in social and political
l life.
During the week ended May four hun
dred animals have been slaughtered by
direction Of the Chicago livestock authori-
| ties, and out of this number seventy-five
clearly authenticated cases Of pleuro-pneu-
mopia were discovered.
A ire in Julia street, New Orleans, on
the 4th destroyed DISCRIMINATING estab-
lishment and several brick and frame
houses. Langhlin Lyons, paralytic, and
his three-year-old grandchild perished in
the flames. The aggregate loss was $780,
900; insurance half that amount.
In the United States Court at Indianapo-
lis Ind, on the 4th Judge Woods, in charg-
ing the grand jury urged investigation. of
the alleged tally-s.Ieet forgeries, and said
indictments should be returned against
election officers who had allowed tally
sheets to go out of their custody in viola
tion of the law. The charge was surprise
and caused sensation.
DR.. Edward Knox, of Fentress County,
Tenn, recently tied up naked his fourteen
h; !, hi oh
snake whip until he became unconscious
and soon after died. The father fed, but il
caught will be lynched.
The Chinese portion of San Jose, Cal,
was destroyed by fire on the 5th. Loss,
5000; insurance, az, 600.
The Grand Encampment of Ohio Odd
Fellows adjourned at Columbus on the 4th
after selecting Cleveland as the place for
holding the next encampment and electing
the following officers: Grand Patriarch,
Franklin Ellis, Troy; Grand High Priest,
U. s. Bell, Zanesville; Grand Senior Ward
en-, II. E. Frost, New Lisbon; Grand Junior
Warden, l.. Van Norden, Toledo; Scribe
James Anderson, Dayton; Grand Treasurer,
Anthony Wright, Wooster.
The board of arbitrators of the Inter.
State Miners and Operators Association
in session at Columbus, O., on the 4th
agreed upon an advance of five cents in
wages, to go into effect at once, according
to the request of the miners organization
Hon. Cary A. Trembel, at one time Rep
resentatiye in Congress from the Chilli
cothe (O.) district, died at Columbus or
the 4th. He was one Of the heirs of ex
Governor Duncan A. Macarthur.
w. c. DePauw, the wealthy glass manu-
facturer of New Albany, Ind, who was re
Gently stricken with apoplexy, died on th'
; 5th.
At Elk River, Mimi, on the 5th fire de
stroyed Mills Il Houlton's Touring mill, saw
mill, planning mill, and elevators, Galley
} chair factory, and Dickey's hotel and barn
, Loss, SS5, 600; partly insured.
Rev. Robert Smith and three sons wer
} seriously if not fatally burned by an explo
sion of powder, which occurred on the 5tl
at the coal mine in Dawson, a small tow
near nliopolis, Ill.
. At the request of many of the larges
Asol,